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...Pump House Gang, his second collection of essays--established Wolfe as the Boswell of acid beside Ken Kesey's Doctor Johnson. The book's ecstatic, exploding prose reads like the litany of a convert. Yet while he sees Kesey's Merry Pranksters as the hippie prototypes of an increasing search for religious experience in America, Wolfe himself felt no personality change during his contact with them. Unlike Mailer, Wolfe appears to have preserved the distinction between participant and reporter...
Though I find the words "imperialist" and "revolutionary" rather droll in American usage, now I wonder if the generation gap is not something more than that--a distinction between a search for truth and a belief in forms. When the non-violent and stupid excesses of those without authority are met by the grisly, sadistic, and inordinate excesses of authority, where is "academic freedom" or "democratic process"? And where are they when the authorities excuse their own excesses as "only human, after all." I know of no such humanity...
...South, and reduce the gap between generous and ungenerous states. The disparity, already serious, became crucial last week when the Supreme Court rejected as unconstitutional state residency requirements for welfare. Unless the Federal Government does something?and soon?the more lenient states may attract many more welfare applicants in search of higher benefits, compounding the troubles in the ghettos and adding to the cities' already intolerable financial burdens...
Snarling engines. Dark goggles. Billowing dust. Hell's Angels in California? No, Viet Nam, where the U.S. military, never tiring in its search for methods to find an elusive enemy, has just added the motorcycle to the hunter's inventory that has, at one time or other, included such exotica as people-sniffing bedbugs, infra-red photography and side-looking radar...
...raped in Meridian, Miss., in 1965. she could say only that her assailant was a Negro youth. During the next ten days, Meridian police resorted to the "dragnet" technique-stopping and questioning nearly 75 young Negroes at random. Many were fingerprinted, questioned and released. The Fourth Amendment bars any search or seizure without probable cause. But as it turned out, the fingerprints of one of the Negroes, John Davis, then 14, matched a set found on the windowsill of the victim's home. He was tried and subsequently convicted...